About the authors

Rodrigo Davies is an S.M. candidate in the Comparative Media Studies program and a research assistant at the MIT Center for Civic Media. He has served as an adviser, product manager and practitioner on civic projects with the Mayoral offices of San Francisco and Boston and the United Nations Development Program. Twitter: @rodrigodavies

Erica Deahl is a S.M. candidate in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, where she studies and designs media for education and social impact. As a research assistant at the Civic Data Design Lab, she co-leads the City Digits project, developing classroom curricula and building geo-spatial tools to help high school students conduct data-driven urban investigations. Twitter: @edeahl,

Julie Fischer studies the future potentials for documentary as an interactive, cross-platform, and participatory form of storytelling. Before coming to MIT, she worked for documentary filmmaker Errol Morris as a researcher on his film and book projects.. Twitter: @JuFisch

Jason Lipshin is an interaction designer and UX researcher focused on mobiles and ubiquitous computing. He is a graduate student in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and has worked for the MIT Mobile Experience Lab (MEL). Jason has helped develop new concepts and prototypes for Marriott Hotels, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, and RAI, Italy's national broadcasting company. Twitter: @JLipshin

Eduardo Marisca is a master's student in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He is currently researching the emergence of the video game industry in Peru and its potential as a creative industry, and is also working as a research assistant at The Education Arcade, an MIT lab researching, and developing educational games. Twitter: @piscosour

Lingyuxiu Zhong is a graduate student in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and a research assistant in the Education Arcade. She holds a B.A. in History from Yale University. She is currently working on her thesis, which focuses on Instagram and other social media platforms that deal with digital memory. Twitter: @blingalingz